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Re: tail -f problem
- From: "Matthew Smith" <matts at bluesguitar dot org>
- To: "Cygwin" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Scott Alexander" <salexander at tepik dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:04:06 -0600
- Subject: Re: tail -f problem
- References: <FNECLMPOECFEEEOLCOMPMEBLCDAA.salexander@tepik.com>
This is not a simple issue of "the linux tail works, and the cygwin tail
doesn't". You're exporting an smb share, which most likely (or could
possibly) affect buffering/flushing. At any rate, if the linux tail is
working for you, use it.
cheers,
-Matt
> I've read the archives (now that I found it) about other people posting
> about this. However, this does not change the fact that linux's version
of
> tail works plenty fine with viewing IIS logfiles vs. Cygwin's version of
> tail.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Smith [mailto:matts@bluesguitar.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:39 AM
> To: Cygwin
> Cc: Scott Alexander
> Subject: Re: tail -f problem
>
>
> This is not the fault of tail, rather IIS. Search the archives if you're
> interested why.
>
> cheers,
> -Matt Smith
>
>
>
> > With cygwin's tail, the output is not quite the same as the linux
version
> of
> > tail. With Cygwin's version, I will get output with tail -f, but the
> > updates aren't "realtime" as the linux version -- the updates are barely
> > shown at all, if ever. Here are the different methods I used to try and
> > parse the IIS log file:
> > Thanks,
> > -Scott
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